[Arm-netbook] 10in tablet and dock

[luke.leighton]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 15:29 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > What can 1 kilo dollar buy these days?
>> >
>> > At least 1 open sourced PCB per week and tech assistance to make sure it
>> > works.
>>
>>  cool.  would you like to do a mini or monster engineering-board or a
>> pass-through card?  a pass-through card would be extremely useful as a
>> base-line tester (and also as a final product which can turn e.g. a
>> tablet into e.g. a 2nd screen for e.g. a Desktop PC).  the
>> engineering-boards especially one with an on-board STM32F would do
>> very well as a kickstarter project, especially if the schematics are
>> open and available.
>>
>
> I'd like to do as many as I can.
> For the money, I place bets on doing the simple one first and moving up
> the ladder. What / where is pass-through card and info + circuits.
> If you got gerbers to share like with PCMCIA, board outline etc, then
> foot prints from Gerber can be imported into KiCAD to speed up work
> instead of redesigning from scratch.

 yep.  ermmermerm.... i'll look them up and send them to you (files
for the micro-eng board are in altium).  or... christopher, could you
forward the latest rev micro-eng to joe? i noticed that there were
some changes done.

 pass-through card is a concept, ultra-ultra-simple, it's a TFP410a
and errr that's it!

 mini-eng-board is basically micro with an RGB/TTL-to-DVI-or-VGA
converter IC (pick an IC, any IC...)  nice to have would be an STM32F
(say the 48-pin one) and _really_ nice to have would be the STM32F207
series.  copying the leaflab maple schematics (some of which are
already in kicad) would be easy to get things going there.

l.